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Sheldon Lee Glashow

1932 - Today

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Sheldon Lee Glashow (US: , UK: ; born December 5, 1932) is a Nobel Prize-winning American theoretical physicist. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Sheldon Lee Glashow has received more than 263,321 page views. His biography is available in 67 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 62 in 2019). Sheldon Lee Glashow is the 225th most popular physicist (up from 236th in 2019), the 905th most popular biography from United States (up from 1,082nd in 2019) and the 47th most popular American Physicist.

Sheldon Lee Glashow is most famous for his work in the field of particle physics. He is best known for his work with Steven Weinberg and Abdus Salam on the electroweak theory, which describes the unification of electromagnetism and the weak force.

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Among PHYSICISTS

Among physicists, Sheldon Lee Glashow ranks 225 out of 851. Before him are Chien-Shiung Wu, Norman Foster Ramsey Jr., Vitaly Ginzburg, John L. Hall, John Clauser, and Murray Gell-Mann. After him are Roy J. Glauber, Frederick Reines, Claude Cohen-Tannoudji, Theodor W. Hänsch, Edme Mariotte, and Makoto Kobayashi.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1932, Sheldon Lee Glashow ranks 49. Before him are Ted Kennedy, Pat Morita, Stéphane Audran, Oliver E. Williamson, Francis Lai, and V. S. Naipaul. After him are Vytautas Landsbergis, Robert Mundell, Thomas Klestil, Louis Malle, Harriet Andersson, and John Searle.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Sheldon Lee Glashow ranks 905 out of 20,380. Before him are George A. Romero (1940), James Cromwell (1940), Jimmy Connors (1952), Asaph Hall (1829), John B. Calhoun (1917), and Richard Rorty (1931). After him are Daniel Keyes (1927), Roy J. Glauber (1925), Lewis Strauss (1896), John Lee Hooker (1917), Ray Tomlinson (1941), and Frederick Reines (1918).

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Among PHYSICISTS In United States

Among physicists born in United States, Sheldon Lee Glashow ranks 47. Before him are Leon Cooper (1930), Clifford Shull (1915), Norman Foster Ramsey Jr. (1915), John L. Hall (1934), John Clauser (1942), and Murray Gell-Mann (1929). After him are Roy J. Glauber (1925), Frederick Reines (1918), Burton Richter (1931), Leon M. Lederman (1922), Henry Way Kendall (1926), and John Archibald Wheeler (1911).

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